At 11:37 AM 11/17/2003 -0500, Steve Bellovin <smb@research.att.com> wrote:

http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/huang1203.asp

A nice puff piece but it steers clear of well know, if not respected, prognosticators that poo-poo any near-term potential for micro-payments. Conspicuously absent is e-gold which predates all of the listed vendors, does a daily average of $3 million in transactions, relatively simple to use, requires no special end-user software and internally cost effective enough to handle payments less than $0.01. It seems e-gold has been smeared (unfairly I think) in the press as only attracting gray market types. steve --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to majordomo@metzdowd.com